Installation; Stacking Or Flying The Kiva; Connecting Speakers - L-Acoustics KIVA COMPACT WST Manuel D'utilisation

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INSTALLATION

6.1

Stacking or flying the KIVA

The KIVA fully integrated three-point rigging (Figure 2) consists in two self-locking side grips (also allowing enclosure
handling) and one angle bar for inter-enclosure angular adjustment with inter-enclosure angles from 0° to 15°. This
allows various system setups in flown or stacked configurations such as:
• Flying vertical array of up to 20 KIVA or 12 KIVA/4 KILO assembly using the L-ACOUSTICS
structure.
• Stacking vertical array of up to 10 KIVA or KIVA/KILO assembly of up to 1.84 m/6 ft height using the
L-ACOUSTICS ® KIBU rigging structure.
•
35 mm/1.4'' pole mounting or under-balcony rigging of up to two KIVA enclosures using the L-ACOUSTICS
KIET mounting accessory.
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Refer to the "KIVA - Rigging Procedures'' manual to get acquainted with the KIVA system specific
rigging procedures.
WARNING
6.2

Connecting speakers

The KIVA enclosure is driven and powered by the dedicated L-ACOUSTICS
amp channel can drive one or two KIVA or KILO enclosures in parallel. The channel assignment varies upon the preset
selected by the user for a given application. For more details please refer to the "LA4 - user manual'', also available
on the internet website @
The KIVA enclosure is equipped with two 4-point Speakon
KIVA enclosure in parallel via an L-ACOUSTICS
To connect the KIVA enclosure to the amplified controller LA4 (Figure 3), L-ACOUSTICS
L-ACOUSTICS ® SP10 or SP25 cables with respective length of 10 m/32.8 ft and 25 m/82 ft.
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A maximum of two KIVA enclosures can be connected in parallel per LA4 amp channel.
IMPORTANT
The L-ACOUSTICS ® wiring convention is as follows:
Speakon
KIVA_UM_ML_1.2
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SP.7 link cable.
® connector labels
1+
1 -
2+
2 -
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® LA4 amplified controller. Each LA4
®
connectors wired in parallel allowing to connect another
Connections to transducers
IN +
IN -
Not used
Not used
® KIBU rigging
®
® recommends using the
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